Air India introduces new menu in domestic flights
NEW DELHI: Tatas-owned Air India has introduced a new in-flight menu on domestic routes amid the onset of the festive season.Since taken over by the Tatas in January this year, the loss-making airline has been making efforts to revamp services, expand its fleet and increase its overall market share in the fast-growing domestic aviation space. […]
SpiceJet to operate 30 new domestic flights
NEW DELHI: SpiceJet said on Thursday it would start 30 new domestic flights in a phased manner from next week. The Narendra Modi government (Centre) has currently permitted the Indian carriers to operate maximum 80 per cent of their flights before the coronavirus pandemic. Among the 30 flights from Sunday, six will connect Darbhanga […]
Maximum 60% of pre-Covid domestic flights can be operated till February 24
NEW DELHI: Indian airlines can operate maximum 60 per cent of their pre-COVID domestic passenger flights till February 24 next year due to the prevailing coronavirus situation, the Civil Aviation Ministry has said. The ministry had informed the airlines about the 60 per cent limit through an official order on September 2 but it had […]
Domestic airlines to fly 12,983 flights per week this winter
NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has approved 12,983 domestic flights for the winter schedule, 44 per cent lower than the number of domestic weekly flights during the last winter schedule. The winter schedule begins on Sunday, October 25 and would go on till March 27. During the previous winter schedule, a […]
India proposes full refund on domestic, foreign airline tickets booked during lockdown
NEW DELHI: In an affidavit in the Supreme Court, O.K. Gupta, Director, Directorate General of Civil Aviation, said for the domestic airlines if the tickets were booked directly with the airline or through an agent, during the first lockdown period, – March 25 – April 14 – for the journeys to be undertaken in both […]
Domestic flights resume after two months: Delhi’s first departure is to Pune and Mumbai’s first to Patna
NEW DELHI: Indian skies will open up for domestic passenger services from Monday after a gap of two months, with Delhi-Pune and Mumbai-Patna flights being among the first to take off, aviation industry sources said. All scheduled commercial passenger flights have been suspended since March 25 when the government imposed a nationwide lockdown to curb […]
IndiGo, SpiceJet, other airlines resume online bookings for domestic flights for June
NEW DELHI: Some airlines have started bookings for flights from June onwards, sources said amid commercial flight services remaining suspended till May 31 due to the coronavirus lockdown. A SpiceJet spokesperson, however, said its international bookings are closed till June 15. Commercial flights have been suspended since March 25 when the country-wide lockdown began to […]
India suspends domestic, international flights till May 3
NEW DELHI: Following the address of Prime Minister Narendra Modi announcing the extension of coronavirus lockdown till May 3, all domestic and international flights have been suspended till May 3, the Union Ministry of Civil Aviation has said. “All domestic and international scheduled airlines operations shall remain suspended till11:59pm of 03 May 2020,” the aviation regulator DGCA […]
GoAir expands network, announces new domestic and international flights
NEW DELHI: Expanding its network, GoAir on Thursday announced it would start 12 new flights on international sector connecting India with cities such as Bangkok and Dubai. The low-cost carrier said it would start 16 new domestic flights too, that will connect Hyderabad with eight cities across India. “We will be launching three new destinations […]
SpiceJet to start 12 new domestic flights from March 31
NEW DELHI: SpiceJet on Tuesday stated that it will start 12 new direct flights on its domestic network from March 31, 2019. “SpiceJet is the first Indian carrier to introduce daily direct flights on the Bhopal-Surat-Bhopal, Gorakhpur-Mumbai-Gorakhpur and Jaipur-Dharamshala-Jaipur sectors,” the airline said in its statement. The airline also announced on Tuesday that it will […]